Swanson called for America to repent for legal abortion, birth control, country music and fictional movie characters during his National Religious Liberties Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 7, notes RightWingWatch.org.

America, repent that Dumbledore emerged as a homosexual mentor for "Harry Potter," that Hiccup’s mentor in "How to Train Your Dragon" emerged as a homosexual himself in order that history might repeat itself one more time, in order that little six- and seven- and eight-year-olds might stumble, in order that tens of millions of parents.

It would be better for them that a millstone be hanged around their neck and they be drowned at the bottom of the sea in order that there would be so many people stumbling so many children in public schools, in movie theaters, in homes in which children are raised to be stumbled by the Dumbledores and by the mentors of Hiccup in "How to Train Your Dragon!"

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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow noted on her Nov. 9 broadcast that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Mike Huckabee, who are all running for president, attended Swanson's conference, which she termed a "kill-the-gays" event.

Maddow reported that Swanson has supported the Biblical death penalty for homosexuals, but also said at the conference that gays should not be killed as they need time to repent.